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How an NWS apprenticeship can offer skills for life and how apprentices are shaping the future of nuclear

“I don’t have a degree.” Adrienne Kelbie, Independent Chair of Nuclear Waste Services (NWS), had what many would consider an unconventional start in the world of nuclear. Working as an administrative temp, she worked her way through varied roles that …

How the Low Level Waste Repository in Cumbria is shaping the future of nuclear waste management

Over the last six decades, Mike Pigott and his team, and their predecessors, have been successfully managing the disposal of low-level radioactive waste at the Low Level Waste Repository in Cumbria. With 65 years of experience in safe radioactive waste …

The Strategy Series: Innovating to reduce, reuse and recycle

We’re onto the third instalment of our Strategy Series where we dissect our 2030 Corporate Strategy with the help of our Nuclear Waste Service (NWS) experts!  Our Corporate Strategy will help us to move forward in new, innovative ways with …

Learning from Canada - Q & A with Jamie Matear

Q & A with Jamie Matear, Director of Siting Coordination at Canada’s Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) Jamie visited Nuclear Waste Services earlier this year as part of a collaboration and learning visit. We sat down with Jamie to find …

Site evaluation studies in Mid Copeland – interview with the Siting Manager

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Nuclear Waste Services has started its initial investigations to begin to understand the suitability of hosting a Geological Disposal Facility (GDF) in Mid Copland. The desk-based studies will look at the feasibility of delivering a surface facility connected to the …

GDF Sustainability - Futureproofing our world

Today, we have published the Geological Disposal Facility (GDF) programme sustainability ‘first look’ paper setting out how sustainability is, and will continue to be, at the heart of the GDF programme. As a nationally significant infrastructure project which will span …